SHIPPING.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 960, 24 July 1877, Page 2

SHIPPING.

:’i >;;t i. i > TWLTON. \ V EAT LIE K 11E TORT. Julv 24-9 am., wind, calm; weather, bight. Barometer. 30 24 ; thermomoter, 29. Hkiii Water To-Morrow. Morning, 3 46; night, .09. A —July 23. Wanaka, s.s, 278 tons, Malcolm, from Wellington. Passengers—-Mrs v'outts, Mrs Bapley, Messrs Aa, chan (two;. Arawata, s.s, 623 to.is, I mlerwood, from Melbourne, via South, Passengers —nun Melbourne, saloon: Mrs «V.er, Misses Peter, idulelifte, Duncan, (Jacciliiii, Duncan, McDonakl, Ma.ter A. Smith, and Messrs Holder, J. G Warner, A. Duncan; saloon, from Coast: Miss 8 carle ; steerage, from Melbourne: Mr anu Mrs Reynolds, Messrs Kossiter, J. Hood, C. Smith. Owen ; steerage, from coast : Mr and Mrs Hughes, and twenty-two for forward ports. Cleared, —July 24, Arawata, Cnderwood, for Wellington and Nelson. Sailed— July 24. Antelope, cutter, Malcolmson, for Akaroa. Alice Jane, ketch, Johnson, for Akaroa. Quiver, ketch, Smith, for Le Boil’s Bay. Annie, ket ch, Fisher, for Port Levy. The s.s. Arawata arrived at 7.30 a.m. She sails for Wellington and Nelson this even ing. The s.s. Wanaka was coming up the harbor when our express left port at 1 p.m. to-day. The Torea sailed for Kaipara with a cargo of produce last night. The Mary Ann Annison commences loading for Auckland to-day. OCEAN RACES HOMEWARD. The ocean race referred to on Friday was not confined to the ships Crusader and Itangitikei. The New Zealand Shipping Company’s ship Otaki sailed from Port Chalmers on the day after the Crusader left Lyttelton, and her commander, Captain Milman, considered himself in the race, and determined to reach home first, if possible. Fortune did not favor his ship for the first few days, which were pleasant enough for the passengers, but annoying to the skipper. For four days there was hardly any wind; indeed, the vessel was almost becalmed. But a breeze then sprung up, and away the Otaki sailed ; and, notwithstanding the delay at first, she rounded the Horn on the twenty-second day. Being still fairly favored, she went on to the Line, which she crossed forty-five days out, and thence she had propitious winds homeward. As the time came for their arrival at home the interest us to the voyages of the three vessels was shared in by those immediately concerned in Loudon, and the owners of the Crusader wore highly gratified when they had a telegram on the 18th May announcing that their vessel had been reported in the Channel sixty-eight days, 'they were naturally surprised to find that the utaki was already posted as having arrived in the Channel on the 17tk, she having left Row Zealand one day after andbeing reporte I in the Channel one day before the Crusader. To the commanders and builders of both ships much credit is due, and the ships were heartily welcomed when they were docked in the same dock —the Crusader on the morning of the 10th; the Otaki at noon —the next tide. It will be probably a long time before these passages are excelled. Passengers by the Utaki write that when the vessel was bowling along her ten or fourteen knots an hour she was as steady and dry as if she was becaimed. The passages may be stated as from port to dock : The Crusader, from Lyttelton, loth March, to dock 19th May, seventy days ; The Otaki, from Port Chalmers, 11th March, to dock 19th May, sixty-nine days. Of course the departure from from the land is reckoned as the commencement and the report in Channel is taken as the end of the voyage. The Crusader left the Peninsula the 12th March, and was reported in the channel on the 18th May, sixty-seven days; the Otaki left Port Chalmers coast on the loth March, and was reported on the 17th May, sixty-three days. The latter is the fastest passage ever made. WRECK OF THE SCHOONER MERA AT HOKIAN GA. Information has been received in Auckland of the total wreck of the fine three-masted schooner Mera, Captain Loverock, bound from Hokianga to Dunedin. The Mera cleared from this port on May 10th, under the charge of Captain Pallant and a crew of nine. Her arrival in Hokianga was announced shortly afterwards, and she very | soon began to take in baulk timber for Dunedin, j A series of mishaps then befel the vessel, or those I belonging to her, and on June 10th Captain Pal- j ant was brought to town, suffering from a compound fracture of the thigh, caused by one of the pieces of timber falling upon him. Captain Loverock was then appointed to the command of the schooner, and took passage for Hokianga in the I steam launch Lionel, The little steamer, however, i had not got far on her journey when, in crossing ( the Manukau Bar, some part of her machinery , became deranged, and it was with difficulty that j the vessel got into smooth water. This caused | several days’ delay before Captain Loverock could got to his* vessel. The loading of the schooner | was then carried on, anti with 180,000 feet on i board she made for the Heads, where she ' was windbound for about u fortnight. * From the following telegram of our correspou- j dent it will be seen that she had got out on j Saturday, when, the wind failing, she came to I grief, and is now a total wreck, her masts gone, \ and the hull imbedded in the sand. The vessel | is almost new, and was built on the Clyde, and on | her run to this port she made one of the quickest I passages of the season. Her original cost was | AfiUOu, and, so far as we can learn from the Auck- j land agents, Messrs Couplaud and Co, her hull is i insured in the'New Zealand, South British, and | National ofiiees for £SOO each. She is owned in i the South by Messrs John Lemon and Thomas Meek, of Oamaru, and Messrs Keith Ramsay and James Anderson, of Dunedin, who were speedily informed of their loss by Messrs Coupland and Co. The cargo was shipped by Mr McLellan to the order of Air G. \V. Dinney, who is insured in the Batavia olliee for £440. This gentleman gave notice of the abandonment of her cargo yesterday afternoon. Captain W'orsp, marine surveyor, loft by the s.s. lona yesterday evening for Russell, tnenee to the scene of the wreck, in order to examine and impure into the matter on behalf of the insurance companies. The following is the telegram of our correspondent: —Hokianga, Monday. The three-masted schooner Mera, 23b tons, Cupt. Loverock, bound for Dunedin with a full cargo oi baulk kauri timber, went ashore at the North Head at 7 p.m. on Saturday, and is now a total wreck. She had got outside, when the wind failed; the two anchors were let go, which the heavy swell caused to part, and she drifted ashore. The crew were saved. It isjunderstood the vessel js insured. —Auckland “ Herald.”